Neuglück Colliery (Hattingen)
| Neuglück colliery | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | approx. 50,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | over 150 | ||
| Start of operation | 1750 | ||
| End of operation | 1962 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 24 '50.3 " N , 7 ° 8' 25.5" E | ||
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| Location | Niederwenigern | ||
| local community | Hattingen | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Neuglück colliery was a coal mine on the Ruhr, between Niederwenigern (now part of Hattingen ) and Burgaltendorf (now part of Essen ). It supposedly got its name from the fact that coal was repeatedly dug in their minefields , so the (changing) owners were always looking for “new luck”.
history
Historic mine
Since around 1750 mining was operated in Dumberg (east of Burgaltendorf and north of Niederwenigern ) by the Neuglück trade union . 1777 on six new seams presumption inserted awarded which in 1792 and by a new tunnel in today's road on Kempel were reduced southward for 1836 is annual production of about 2,000 tons of coal reported what should t doubled to be between 4,000 1,842th During this time there was a regular transport of coal via the Ruhr shipping .
Civil engineering
In 1895 two tonnage shafts were built, which resulted in the development of new coal reserves. In 1898 the Längenfeld Neuenglück and the closed Thorenbank colliery were consolidated into the Neuglück colliery . In 1900 the mine had 393 employees and extracted 89,000 tons of coal on three levels. In 1903, however, the colliery was only temporarily shut down, but from 1905 it was permanently shut down due to inefficiency.
1920s
Mid-1917, the shafts were Hugo and Paul drilled . They reached the coal at a depth of 31 m, and in 1920 166 employees mined around 30,000 t of coal. In 1925 it was closed again.
1930s
Around 1933 the company was reactivated, but stopped again in 1936. The fault was the high water inflow and the break in the main line.
1950s
From 1951 to 1962 Neuglück operated a tunnel in Niederwenigern, the mouth of which was located on the area of today's sports field of Sportfreunde Niederwenigern on Burgaltendorfer Strasse in the village. the mine field of the colliery was expanded again in 1965 and the tunnel was extended to below today's Heidehof, so that in 1961 more than 150 employees extracted approx. 50,000 t of coal. A year later it was shut down due to the coal crisis . Most of the miners from Neuglück got new jobs at Dahlhauser Tiefbau colliery .
Search for clues
In the course of the mine workings , day breaks occurred again and again , for example in 1967 during a football game in Niederwenigern.
In 1965, the municipality of Winz (which until 1970 also included Niederwenigern and Dumberg) decided to rename the street Am Tölken in Dumberg to Neuglücker Weg . This street name is still reminiscent of the cradle of the colliery today.
In 2010, the village took Niederwenigern on the action Schachtzeichen part. The yellow balloon hovered over the Heidehof, but was badly damaged by gusts of wind.
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr (= the blue books ). 4th edition, unchanged reprint of the 3rd edition in 1990. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
Web links
- WAZ: New luck with black gold (last accessed on October 24, 2012)
- Michael Tiedt: Ruhrkohlenrevier (last accessed on October 24, 2012)